Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus announced Tuesday that the committee has chosen Cleveland to host the 2016 GOP convention. In choosing Ohio, Republicans have again scheduled their convention for a swing state, after nominating Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan at the 2012 convention in Tampa, Fla. Here’s a look at 10 facts about Cleveland, the Midwestern city that will host national Republicans in two years.

1.The Cuyahoga River is called “The River That Caught Fire,” since it is estimated that the body of water that runs through Cleveland has caught fire 13 times. Former EPA Administrator Carol Browner recalls one such fire in the polluted river in 1969 that may have been a catalyst for greater environmental awareness. “I will never forget a photograph of flames, fire, shooting right out of the water in downtown Cleveland,” she said. “It was the summer of 1969 and the Cuyahoga River was burning.”

3. The city was originally named “Cleaveland,” after General Moses Cleaveland, whose company led the survey of the city in 1796. The name was later shortened to remove the extra “a” in the 19th century, reportedly so that the city’s name could fit on the masthead of a metropolitan newspaper.

4. Superman was created in Cleveland. Co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who lived a few blocks away from each other in the city, created the character in the 1930s as “a Depression-era bootstrap strategy,” according to the New York Daily News.

5. The city’s Euclid Avenue was known as “Millionaire’s Row” in the late 19th and early 20th century, one of the U.S.’s “grand avenues” that earned comparisons to the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Among the avenue’s notable residents was oil magnate John Rockefeller, who owned an estate of more than two acres.

6. In 1978, the city became the first since the Great Depression to default on its debt. The default ended nearly two years later. The mayor at the time of default was Dennis Kucinich, who later become a Democratic representative for Ohio and ran for president twice in 2004 and 2008.

7. The city was home to the first ever electric traffic light. The electric traffic light is about to celebrate its 100th birthday on Aug. 5, when in 1914 the first ever light was set up on Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland.

8. The city is in the middle of a 50-year major sports championship drought. The city has gone dry since the Cleveland Browns won the NFL title in 1964.

9. The city served as the principal location of filming for the 1983 movie “A Christmas Story.” The protagonist Ralphie’s house is located in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, where it is now open for tours and sits across the street from a museum dedicated to the film.

10. The city is home to the Cleveland Clinic, which has been the nation’s top heart program from 19 straight years, according to rankings from the U.S. News & World Report. The hospital was also rated one of the top four hospitals in the U.S. in 2013.